394 Mr. C. O. Pak Medeaile Five Years’ Observations 
Do you remember that at Ibadan I once found a brown 
moth-pupa-like form associated apparently with Campo- 
notus maculatus [p. 388]? IL rather think you made it out 
as a somewhat abnormal form of Lachnocnema bibulus. 
The huge soldiers of C. maculatus eagerly seized both 
pupae and larvae and carried them into concealment in 
the carton intricacies. I hope I may solve their food, but 
it may well be that they can tackle fungus growths on 
abandoned Termite bread left in the galleries. What 
strikes me as rather extraordinary is that this strange 
habitat would appear to be a safe one, for I’m sure there 
were in all fifty pupae, if I could have got them all, and the 
larva is soft-bodied with but few bristles. Now I will have 
to let this foreword do. I hope Ill get a good number 
successfully bred out. I ought to be able to send you the 
first lot next mail. 
Agege. 
Sept. 16, 1917.—My find might have been more complete, 
for | doubt if my first surmise as to the food of the larva 
is correct. On the whole I think it must be ruled out, but 
I may manage to get another nest of the kind sooner or 
later. It is something gained to know where to look. 
The nest was ruined before I came on the scene, and the 
wonder is I managed to get the material I did. It is all 
due to the fact that the present labourers’ lines here are 
in the last stage of dilapidation and I determimed to have 
new ones made. I got a new site selected which wanted 
some levelling. This I set the men to do. One has to be 
possessed of considerable versatility in a country such as 
this. I have done many strange jobs this tour, few at 
my own work. One can’t leave the simplest bit of work to 
chance and a native headman, so after a time I went 
to see how the work was getting on and arrived in time to 
see two men driving forks into an old Termitary, part of 
which was already levelled. Little colonies of Termites 
with their fungus garden lay in the débris, and running 
about in great agitation were a large number of workers 
and soldiers of Camponotus maculatus. But what startled 
me more than these quite usual things was to see scattered 
about a number of golden-brown or straw-coloured pupae, 
which at first I concluded must be moth pupae. I con- 
cluded mentally that they might be worth having were it 
only for a seemingly gregarious pupation in rather an odd 
place. Then, perhaps because just a few minutes earlier 
